Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Hollyharvey

meg72 wrote: »

enjoy the no cooking while you can. I am being taken for a late Birthday lunch my friend was too poorly to go last week. we are going for a mixed grill so wont want a dinner tonight.

I hope you enjoyed your lunch and the mixed grill was good. I thoroughly enjoyed today and the food was really good, but I think it always does taste better when you haven't had to cook it yourself .

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just crispy spelt cereal for breakfast, with hm hemp milk. cba making anything in a pan

I de-frosted one of my portions of bean ratatouille yeterday and had it just warm with halloumi, it was lovely. I am delighted tbh, I thought that freezing would change the texture. Thats my plan for next year then, to grow the same number of moonlight beans and three courgette plants. Have to plan ahead because of crop rotations. I think I have plenty of ratat frozen for winter, yay, easy meals while I sit and knit

I am going to break into my small frozen pizza today, wasn`t one of the cheap ones, hope it is extra nice. Half today and half tomorrow, with salad. Slice of cake and coffee as soon as I have changed, then off on my bike, need energy to go and dig out more long parsnips, my first job of the day. They would be impossible if I leave them any longer and I prefer them not sweet with too much plant sugars like after frost

PasturesNew

Senior moment breakfast.... nearly.

I made hash browns, scrambled eggs and baked beans. Black coffee to accompany.

Multi tasking isn't something I can do.

Got the mug for the beans out.
Put the kettle on.
Opened the beans.
Put the coffee in the beans mug.
Put the beans in the mug.
Nuked.
Stirred/tasted ... thought "that's not right... taste has changed"...

Then I realised!

Binned the beans and started again

meg72

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I hope you enjoyed your lunch and the mixed grill was good. I thoroughly enjoyed today and the food was really good, but I think it always does taste better when you haven't had to cook it yourself .

Lol definitely better when you didn't cook it yourself. the mixed grill was excellent but huge. There was chicken rump steak gammon and sausage. chips tomato and onion rings. I brought the rump steak home with me and will have it with baked potato and salad today.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Senior moment breakfast.... nearly.

I made hash browns, scrambled eggs and baked beans. Black coffee to accompany.

Multi tasking isn't something I can do.

Got the mug for the beans out.
Put the kettle on.
Opened the beans.
Put the coffee in the beans mug.
Put the beans in the mug.
Nuked.
Stirred/tasted ... thought "that's not right... taste has changed"...

Then I realised!

Binned the beans and started again

Sorry PN but this made me laugh so much, mainly because it's the sort of thing that I'm always doing

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,

Mtstm I did my porridge the way that you do and it does make it taste much better, thanks for that tip. I had mine with some mixed berries from the freezer this morning.

As I was out and about this morning I stopped off at Waitrose as I was near, and I'm glad I did. I got a really good y/s haul. They had their masala chicken breasts for £1.50 a pack and as there were five stacks of them I got three. So that's one for today with some new potatoes and steamed veg and the other five are already in the freezer.

They also had their 'Easy to cook' butter basted chicken breast, the 510g ones that are usually £4.99 for £1.95. There were about 20 there and the use by date is Monday, so I'm not sure what was going on there. I did wonder if they would scan at full price when I got to the till but they didn't. I got three of them. I have put two in the freezer and will cook one tomorrow and have a roast, then probably have it cold on Sunday with mashed potatoes, peas and pickles, and then a salad or another roast on Monday. So that's meals sorted over the bank holiday. Chicken for four days running though, but it is my favourite meat.

I've just had a tuna mayo sandwich for lunch and going to go out and enjoy the lovely sunshine and warm weather that we have got here.

moneyistooshorttomention

I prefer my porridge that way personally Holly. Though, the reason I do so is I gather one should soak some stuff (like grains) before eating to do with phytic acid (or summat....) that it's not deemed to be too good an idea for us to have (ie getting less nutrients from our food than we should have). Me - I need all the nutrients I can get:rotfl:

Someone scientifically-minded could explain all that rather better than me...

It's "on the list" to do a lot more soaking of everything "soakable" first - nuts/seeds/etc. One of the experiments still on my To Do list.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Senior moment breakfast.... nearly.

I made hash browns, scrambled eggs and baked beans. Black coffee to accompany.

Multi tasking isn't something I can do.

Got the mug for the beans out.
Put the kettle on.
Opened the beans.
Put the coffee in the beans mug.
Put the beans in the mug.
Nuked.
Stirred/tasted ... thought "that's not right... taste has changed"...

Then I realised!

Binned the beans and started again

LOL at that, easily done

The planned breakfast of porridge failed, forgot to put them in soak last night, I know I could just have nuked fresh this morning but by then I was on autopilot. So no breakfast

Nothing worthwhile in Lild, well there were some nice steaks on offer, but at over £2 even reduced that is a tad too far, especially as in pack of two, so would be buying more than really needed. The curse of CFO again

Lunch was a slice of the pork I slow cooked yesterday, in a sandwich with lettuce, easy, filling & tasty
The spoilt it all by having a marmalade sandwich

Dinner I think will be either cold chicken or pork, with salad and possibly a baked spud

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
It's wet & miserable here so I've not ventured out.
I had toast & bacon for breakfast as the baco was needing used up so a good excuse, lunch was the remains of a pot of pate with a couple of the dried wrap triangles and rather a lot of home grown cucumber:). I haven't a clue what I fancy for dinner tonight...

Farway

Caron, we seem to take turn abouts on the weather, lovely down here, warm & sunny, not that I have taken advantage of it except planning to get the washing out tomorrow. Exciting times eh?

The baked spud is in the oven, butter is out, just salad to prepare, and I think it will be the cold roast chicken, then I can joint it pack bits for freezing at the same time